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From: Alfred Hilscher <Alfred.Hilscher@icn.siemens.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada and Hardware
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:27:44 +0200
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Randy Brukardt wrote:
> >> >\\.\A: Obtains a handle to drive A on the user's computer.
> >> >\\.\C: Obtains a handle to drive C on the user's computer."
> >>
> >> Interesting. One has to wonder if this would work with the standard
> Ada IO
> >> operations (eg: Ada.Streams.Stream_IO)...
> >>
> >
> >I just had to know to. It looks like it does not work.
> 
> That format for the disk name only works with Windows NT and Windows
> 2000. Did you try it on one of those, or on Windows 95/98/ME? (So says
> the platform documentation in the MSDN library, January 2001).
> 
> (Note that the original poster's problem cannot be solved with this
> syntax, because it doesn't work on Windows 98, which he indicated was
> his target.)

Correct:
"Windows 95: This technique does not work for opening a logical drive.
In Windows 95, specifying a string in this form causes CreateFile to
return an error."

On Win NT you must have admin rights (I think).